Reproducible data science with Nix, part 10 – contributing to nixpkgs

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I’ve very recently started contributing to the nixpkgs repository of packages, which contains all the packages you can install from the Nix package manager. My contributions are fairly modest: I help fix R packages that need some tweaking to make them successfully build for Nix. Most of these fixes are very simple one-liners. Most users of any free and open source tool rarely contribute to the…

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